point out these are not just conservative sites these are also progressive sites and it's up to three weeks before the midterms so there's no i don't think you brought that up because one could make the argument that facebook is injecting itself into the political process here because they're saying they're required to protect the political process from these three quote unquote fringes but they are the ones that are metal it's also important to point out that it's not just facebook twitter also suspended the account so there is obvious collusion between the two companies so i mean what you have here is facebook in my opinion has put the final nail in their coffin we can look at that now as a big company but believe me in a few years facebook we're grette this disorder or any millennial sort of leaving in droves here but its significance for you because it seems to me that there's an enormous amount of cool lucian going on here and it's the mainstream media that is cheering this along because they want their monopoly back they want to be able to push their competitors to the side because their ratings or way way down their

business model is failing this is a big favor favorite to the establishment definitely think that's how it's developed as well and i think alex was right to point out that this was largely something that they will regret because when this purge of all alternative voices began in issue with so that said this tech companies are now established themselves as this new minister of truth they essentially came after the foreign media first so r.t. for one where they start to manipulate the algorithms to get fewer hits and then we saw that it began to talk internal enemies as well because they have american society become quite polarized so of course the conservatives began to complain that this very left leaning companies are now coming after them as well and censoring. censoring the you know the conservatives. again it continues and i think. now they're going after both left and right so this is unbelievable

opportunity offender even with you're taking this well i think we've said that a long time ago on this program for many decades humane expected fascism to come from extreme left or from which to my right it came from the center where it was the least expect it and look at their reactions i mean let me call. for all their free fought project you know which had more than three million followers gun right he says that this is a free meet terms and their way that expression also i just found out but that's in the service and it's not in the service of democracy it is not in the service of ideas when it is this is to narrow the field and where they have the facebook is injecting itself actually picking winners well i just love this expression. memory recall phrase book memory caught a lot of interesting articles

a lot of interest in autos it is becoming what people call a digital native state you know people complain and name your state for many decades well and then you state that would go into education no one would be against such a state but they're more than ultra liberal name a state it doesn't go to eight in economically but it certainly watches out there that you would not be influenced by politically incorrect facebook and twitter and others they are determining what your value system should be they don't mandating it and they are punishing people they don't toe the line they are much more than a platform where you can place ideas there to turn their editors now their editors of social media of the social media space they are acting as publishers so they should be to fight as. publishers not platforms that should not have the protection

of platforms they should be responsible for what content goes up they should hire thousands of editors to moderate the content they should be liable to any types of lawsuits for the content they publish you can't have it both ways facebook and twitter in my mind are are finished there's a lot of alternatives coming up now gab is crushing twitter as far as growth twitter is losing users it is month to month if it wasn't for donald trump that's why at the end of the day facebook is now essentially a publisher even though they claim to be a platform let's not forget when they first started they were saying they were a platform for communication for ideas they live. in exactly exactly they lie to everyone let's not also forget i've lived in silicon valley these people that work in these companies the facebook the twitters the googles these guys are not progressive they're not conservative they're not libertarians they despise all these call these groups they are neo liberal elitist these guys are the elite of

the leet they make huge salaries they are the royalty they are the tech royalty of the world and everyone else we're just a bunch of service and they want to keep acting like. it's a spot on because in the united states media freedom is sort of list has been quite the sacred and the but the whole argument is that these are private companies they can choose who's going to be on their sites and they can choose the rules for the platform so. obviously they link themselves to sort of those what happens is that i don't know if this was the original goal but they are the public square now i mean they're much more than a platform they are the public square where ideas are exchange and they know unilaterally without giving anyone any recourse is that you're out ok no explanation that it's creating a lot of waves in the u.s. the fact that they are so brazen this company is so that's why you're very interesting on the. in the right in the united states you see traditional free

marketeers conservatives are now arguing that facebook should become utility so essentially the states should absorb it because that's not a good solution it's not a good solution it's a might even compound it depending on who's in power ok how you could use it but we do need some kind of a solution because companies there will grow and they will continue to grow in the future that's where the main joke anomic power will come in the future especially now as we're going into this new industrial revolution so i think. we have to choose where what do we do we have this huge corporations become more more powerful are they going to be aligned with the state if so how do you have chinese system where they control it or they have the corporate state of america or they let them run free and essentially challenge the government like the oligarchs in russia in this program don't think we have any solutions for. twenty seconds before we have. people have been talking about madelyne during the last two years i think well i like to call it nicholas burnaby the founder of the untied media that was also

taken he said ok if we're talking about meddling removing an eight hundred politically. oriented media for deletion you know isn't that in elections right before that never meet terms that he's meddling and it's and they determined who's in it in the middle here we're going to go to a short break guys and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on some really important stay with ard. i know my t.l. don't pal. i'm not that. type of time told paul enough. to know me well i. am only going.

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project themselves. in the final merry go round lives only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. welcome back across the uk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind we're discussing some real news. ok let me go to glen here let's shift gears to saudi arabia and the mysterious disappearance of a dissident saudi journalist this is a big story. yes it definitely created. it's become a very awkward component of the awkward you're always good for understatement. it

is no we didn't blood i think i think it's appears that he was murdered and of course this doesn't bode well for the relations between the united states and saudi arabia but of the day there's a lot of strategic and financial interest in maintaining this partnership so my best guess is that the saudis will throw a lot of money at this we will eventually see it go away. but i guess here coming to the defense of the americans i would say that they are put in a difficult position because they do have this strategic interest they have to pursue and at the same time they have to harmonize this with what appears to be here all moral values or they are the logical we just like you know that. turn of. well you have common geopolitical interests but not values ok i think this is going to continue for a while here we know that the president. is in some kind of joint

investigation well i tend to think this is a one way negotiation if no one is going to extract a lot from the saudis because apparently it's the turks that have all the forensic evidence the communications all this is far as we know it has not been released to the media but that's a very powerful card they're playing and i think the crown prince has to be very worried mostly about his reputation and i think the turks share that information with the u.s. judging by trump's sixty minute interview trump also knows this is a huge huge story is going to get a lot of leverage for saudi arabia is going to get a lot of money from them the u.s. is going to sell a boat load of arms to saudi arabia dekker through the are going to reconcile but m.b.'s most likely as we're talking before the program may be on his way out good riddance that guy was a sociopath he has been doing this for the better part of a year he's been bombing yemen he's been taking other saudi oligarchs and

billionaires locking them in hotel rooms torturing them and it was it not three or four months ago peter that emmis n.b.c. washington post new york times c.n.n. were hailing him is what the law reform and the liberal prince who's who's bringing who's letting women go to movie theaters and letting them drive in he's the savior of saudi arabia and it took you said it best it took the murder most likely the murder of this journalist and the only reason it's opening up the eyes is because he was working for the washington post took this mr president to one of their own here but john brennan this yes came out and i'm glad you pointed out the article to me and so i won't be a spoiler go right ahead well john brennan published an article in the washington post isn't he a brave man. he published an article headlined the us should never turn a blind eye to this sort of inhumanity can you read the last sentence or have it i have it you know read it here. the message would be clear here we go the united

states will never turned a blind eye to such in you mean behavior even when carried out by friends because this is a nation that remains faithful to its values absolutely that was john brennan he was what the darth vader of droning about john brennan as he admits in his article has walked in saudi arabia for five years with the same regime that destroyed. and he basically says that according to my information it couldn't be done without the prince knowing it and the court well for whom better than bradman to know such in this case. shogi was killed by. saudi intelligence personnel. in a foreign country in a consulate that is nothing less than state terrorism so it's kind of like the pot calling the kettle black here and when we do find the truth behind all of this and

like we said we pretty much know what i think most people are hinting at what happened the saudis the family will survive they will they will throw b.s. under the bus in order to survive at the end of the day the world we are survivors so i think m.b.'s his days are numbered i think trump was hurt by what happened i forget that jared cushion or spoke to m.p.'s they said they spoke almost a whole night together and they were discussing policy and stuff so i mean all of trump's media family also got burned copper and really bad you could tell that trump did not like it and you don't cross trump i think at the end of the day trump will take action if and when they decide to publish or to come out with the truth of what happened is the interesting thing is stressing the fact that it is a royal family saying the crown prince is saying the entire family that's what makes it complicated well let me remind the viewers who was the main enemy me or president are gone and muhammad been so long the president bashar al laughs

so tell me about your in the mist and i will tell you who you are maybe if mr austin has such terrible and you miss the people who are able to commit a murder and then hide it maybe he's not so bad after all that's what we have been told by the western media for so many years and again i think the western media and i will try to sell us the story that all of the trump supported the saudi family it all started i think you john brennan is already a right anything his article too old to go with us small readership on the global stage no well well i mean can you remind all of us that it was a bomb of course supported that mohamed bin so months intervention in yemen which mr brennan is now. according to the disastrous for a into yemen of course quote brennan wasn't powell went for it and took it to yemen start at all because the it started with his former support it's very interesting

and really anything else because glenn was absolutely right to bring in the domestic politics in the us about this is that in his dream it is said here i guess history started two years ago because everybody else has ever meet. it would have been born in you remember we have stressed on this program over and over again always talked about the the envelope the drug has in his pocket he checks everything off for his reelection he inherited all of this ok it was not of his doing i'm not defending donald trump i think his relationship his enhanced relationship with saudi arabia is toxic to the core and he's going it's coming back to haunt it was the first country you would terms country let's not forget that so trump does have some responsibility there but i think he will take action as far as bread and goes is not the same brennan that was trying to overthrow and thrown trump is not the same brennan that started you created it

because it's not the same brennan that started it syria is not the same bread in there that we started to russia russia russia russia russia and brennan and killed thousands of people in yemen by groups they realize you're going to get exactly yemen was the first victim or the drone campaign and now brennan is criticizing mohammad bill song for these sounds of this foray into yemen but also. i think mohamed bin solomon has given us a hint that kumi succeed he has nothing but praise article for muhammad bin nayef the former head of the solid dead engines who was basically removed by muhammad bin someone recently he says that this person was deep pulled by the. and victor you crawl out of court well that reminds me also we have a retired cia is involved and i'm not the regime case is this guy ever retire the thing hard to imagine all the time. many thinks of

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